The popularity of eco-friendly products has increased in recent years. This is not strange, because how can a beautiful store packaging and a pleasant aroma achieved with the help of artificial additives compare with the confidence and naturalness of the product? Shower gel is in every bathroom, without which it is difficult to imagine bath procedures. Do you want to pamper your skin with natural oils and vitamins instead of artificial additives? Then it will be interesting for you to learn how to prepare your own exclusive shower gel at home.

Choosing a basis

For the preparation of any kind of shower gel, a soap base is needed. Depending on the basis, shower gels differ in types:

• Soap based

• Shampoo based

• Based on shower gel

In order for your shower gel to contain as few harmful and unknown additives as possible, we advise you to opt for a soap base.

You can use both the remnants of the old soap and the new one. You will need approximately one piece. When buying soap, it is better to opt for children’s, odorless soap, this soap contains a minimum of artificial additives.

To prepare the base, the soap must be grated on a coarse grater, diluted with water in a saucepan and put on a slow fire. While boiling, stir the mixture, and make sure that foam does not form. You need to boil the mixture until it turns into a homogeneous mass. Soap base is ready, now it’s time to personalize your shower gel.

Aroma

In order to give the gel a pleasant aroma, you can use essential oils or natural additives.

You choose the aroma of an essential oil to your taste, but do not forget that oils also have certain properties:

• Rosemary, cloves, ginger, nutmeg have a warming effect
• Cinnamon, eucalyptus, mint, pine — invigorating
• orange, grapefruit help fight cellulite

As for natural flavorings, these can be both herbs and natural products (rose petals, cinnamon sticks, vanilla pods, coffee beans) — they should be crushed well enough and added to the soap base.

It is better to add herbs not in crushed form, but in the form of a decoction: chamomile, nettle, mint.

vitamins

Another advantage of homemade shower gels is that you can control the presence of vitamins in it yourself. Vitamins are best added directly from the ampoules, vitamin A and E are good for the skin. You can buy them at any pharmacy.

Color

If you want your shower gel to have a certain color, you can use food coloring. They will not harm and make the gel more aesthetic.

Supplements

Depending on your skin type and the desired result, you can add different ingredients to the gel to help turn it into a scrub or cream gel:

• Salt will help gently exfoliate dead skin cells.

• Almond crumb will also cleanse the skin well, but is not suitable for frequent use.

• The cream will make your skin softer

• The oil nourishes the skin

Important! Like any other natural product, homemade shower gel has a shorter shelf life than a store-bought one. On average, it should be used no more than a month. If you previously found mold in it, do not worry, there is nothing to worry about, with such contact with the skin, it cannot do much harm. But you need to stop using this gel.

Treat yourself and your skin with natural treats. The best helpers in beauty than nature have not yet been invented!